
The United Nations has issued a desperate plea for over $4 billion in critical aid to assist more than 10 million Syrians, as the country grapples with a protracted crisis described as "unprecedented" by U.N. official Adam Abdelmoula.
Abdelmoula, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' resident coordinator in Syria, made the appeal in Geneva just days after the war-torn nation marked the 13th anniversary of a conflict that has claimed nearly half a million lives and left large parts of the country in ruins.